Catalunya, one nation, two states : an ethnographic study of nonviolent resistance to assimilation / Alexander Alland, Jr. with Sonia Alland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alland, Alexander, 1931-2016.

Contributor:

Alland, Sonia.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nationalism--Spain--Catalonia.

Nationalism.

Catalans.

Assimilation (Sociology).

Spain--Catalonia.

Catalans--Ethnic identity.

Catalans--Cultural assimilation--Spain--Port-Bou--Case studies.

Catalans--Cultural assimilation--France--Cerbère--Case studies.

France.

France--Cerbère.

Spain.

Spain--Port-Bou.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

viii, 209 pages : maps ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Summary:

Few historians and fewer lay people know that the first feudal constitution to recognize equality between the burghers and nobles was established in 1150 in Catalunya, sixty-five years before the signing of the Magna Carta in England. In the fifteenth century the Corts of Barcelona (a legislative body) established the principle of a "limited" monarchy obliged to govern according to laws, while guarding a degree of royal power. These facts lie at the foundation of a culture of nonviolent resistance to assimilation that has been used to combat state power in France and Spain ever since.

Contents:

Chapter 1 The How and Why of This Book 7

Chapter 2 Framing the Study: The Origin and Meaning of Nationalism 37

Chapter 3 The People of Cerbere Speak 65

Chapter 4 The People of Portbou Speak 93

Chapter 5 A New Direction 115

Chapter 6 The State of Catalan in Rossello (Roussillon) 133

Chapter 7 Northern Catalans Speak 149

Chapter 8 Language and Identity on the Horns of a Dilemma 175.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-201) and index.

ISBN:

140397439X

1403974403

OCLC:

65187382

Publisher Number:

9781403974396

9781403974402

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